Magazines - Likes and Dislikes

Hi L.,

I love Family Fun. It is cheap, easy to read & has some great craft ideas. If you like to cook, Taste of Home has some great recipes! I also try to get some info on current events with Time or Newsweek. Best of luck!

Hi!
I think that Oprah's magazine is a good choice.
Have a nice day,
Celia
(also needing to buy her girl scout magazine subscriptions!)

I like Rachel Ray, O, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Architechural Digest because I like to cook and decorate. I would recommend a magazine that speaks to your interests or passions. Perhaps something like Disney mag. for the kids.

I also love the idea of giving them as gifts for the holidays. That is just wonderful because for six months to a year the recipient of these gifts are still receiving them.

i'm giving subscriptions for a christmas gift.. my sister in law has little ones. so family fun is for her.. my older sister in law.. has teens.. so womans day or family circle or something like that.. or a cooking mag like rachel ray.. hope this helps.. people is always a good choice too.. i also like readers digest..

I like consumer reports. It does a good job of preparing you to be an informed consumer.

More, I can't say enough about it. It's writteb for Women over Fourty, but even if your not fourty yet. It's written for grown-ups.
K.

I LOVE Mothering magazine. It has been inspiring, informative, and relevent through pregnancy, infancy, and now parenting a preschooler. I love it!

I love Family Fun, Parents, Parenting and Real Simple.

Hi L., If you like recipes, quick and easy you should get: Every Day with Rachel Ray! I ordered it from my Grand daughter's fundraiser. It is packed with good stuff. My best, Grandma Mary

I think the best magazine out there for current events/news/politics/general-information-about-what's-going-on-in-the-world is "The Week," which is sort of like a "Reader's Digest" of news magazines and newspapers. And for cooking, I love "Everyday Food."

One magazine that I find disappointing is "Prevention." Every issue has promising stuff on the cover, like "How to walk away the pounds." But then when you turn to the article, the answer is "by changing your walking routine into a running routine." It feels like there's a lot of bait-and-switch like that, or else just fairly unrealistic (for my life, anyway) health advice.

-A.

I love Cooking Light! It has lots of health, fitness, and nutrition info and tons of great recipes for all types of tastes, diets, lifestyles and occasions.

i like all those parenting mags, parenting, parents, wondertime is good for little crafty ideas and stuff... the writing is ok, i like reading the letters, they make me feel normal lol... cookie has some really good and deep and smart articles about some real stuff, if you dont mind a million ads for $300 sneakers for your 2 year old and stuff like that. i cancelled my subscription to them when they first came out because i was really offended by the ads making little kids look like adults, imo right on the cusp of inappropriate. but it seems better with that now, i can stomach the ads and get good info from the articles.

I also like the parenting magazines and Real Simple is one of my favorites. It has good suggestions for organization and easy recipes. It really has a little bit of everything.

I like Kiwi magazine - it's a parenting magazine - but more focused on health and eco-friendly living in reasonable ways - not overly preachy or unattainable.

I subscribe to Reader's Digest, and TV Guide, both of which I enjoy, and although I don't have a personal subscription to it, I also enjoy reading People Magazine, when I'm lucky enough to come across one in a doctor's office or someplace like that!

D.

I read Working Mother which I likea lot. I also like cooking magazines - Taste of Home and Every Day with Rachael Ray. People is my guilty pleasure. In the past, I've bought magazine subscriptions as gifts and for the kids with these fundraisers.

Hi L.,
All You is one of the best of the newer magazines I've seen. It has real fashions for real women, excellent coupons, budget and decorating ideas, etc. I would definitely recommend it.
Glamour is my all-time favorite magazine too. It's just a fun indulgence.

I think "O" magazine (from Oprah) is the best women's magazine out there. You do have to take it with a grain of salt that she's on the cover every month... but inside, the articles are great--it's like they actually acknowledge that women can be smart and have wide-ranging interests. They have real articles--well-written & entertaining-- about books, psychology, ethics, articles of interest to single & married women, and still some great fashion/beauty coverage (including models over the age of 30!) If you find a good deal out there, give it a whirl!

I second Real Simple. Love that magazine, and have for years. Better Homes and Gardens is usually ok for decorating and flowers/gardening. Parents is good, but the Disney magazine for families "Family Fun" looks like an interesting one other than the Parents/Parenting.